Leicester will be looking to exact some revenge on Arsenal as they were thumped 5-2 by the North London side at home last season.
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The Foxes face Arsenal on Saturday and have defender Robert Huth available after serving a three-game suspension.
Manager Arsene Wenger admits that the recall of Koscielny is a gamble but it might be a risk worth taking, with captain Per Mertesacker and Gabriel both out injured.
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This week the Algerian forward admitted that only “two or three clubs in the world” could tempt him away from Leicester and suggested that he had no desire to leave the Premier League.
Leicester were beaten by newly-promoted Hull last weekend and Arsenal were taken to the cleaners by Liverpool in front of their own fans.
“We lost twice to Arsenal last season”.
“Danny is very, very close to signing a new contract”, Ranieri said in his pre-match press conference ahead of Leicester’s clash with Arsenal on Saturday, as quoted on FourFourTwo. The 29 year old declined the chance to move to a traditional powerhouse to stay with the team that made him great and see what more he could do there. If you look at his numbers, certainly he was in the top three in the league previous year.
Kasper Schmeichel cut out Arsenal’s best opportunity in the second half, with Mesut Ozil, making his season debut off the bench, combining with Alexis Sanchez only to have the Leicester goalkeeper slide it to safety.
Leicester’s defence of its Premier League title began with a shock defeat at newly promoted Hull City who is managerless and relegation favourites. The Chilean will look to keep his hot streak at the King Power going after a rather indifferent start to the season against Liverpool.
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It’s last season’s champions against the runners-up in the match of the day in the Premier League – and both need to make up for bad starts.
